Terms of Use & Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

This notice discloses the privacy policy for the Bipartisan Policy Center and applies solely to data collected by this web site. You hereby acknowledge and fully understand this privacy policy and consent to the personal data collection and use practices described in this privacy policy. It will notify you of the following:

How personal data is used and with whom it may be shared.

What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.

The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your data.

How you can correct any inaccuracies in the data.

If our policy changes in the future, we will notify you of any such changes by posting an updated policy on our website. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address you specified) or by means of a notice on this site prior to the change becoming effective.

Information Collection, Use, Retention, and Sharing

We collect data that you voluntarily give us via email or that you give voluntarily to a partnering organization. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone. Our primary goal in collecting information is to constantly improve our service to you as the user; to administer your use of our web site, and to enable you to enjoy and easily navigate our web site. If you respond to a survey or other question via our web site, we collect certain personal data such as your name, email address, zip code or other data that can be used to contact you or identify you as an individual. We use your personal data to help customize advertising and content available on our web site, and to conduct research for internal purposes.

We will use your data to communicate with you regarding the reason you supplied us with your data. We will not share your data with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request. We will store a record of your consent, when it was given, and to which uses.

We will keep your personal data only as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy or such longer period as may be required by applicable law.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future with event invitations, newsletters, press releases, educational dialogue, general business correspondence, and changes to this privacy policy.

We do not intend that children under 13 years old will use this web site. We do not solicit or knowingly collect data from children under 13 years old, nor will we accept registration from them.

Cookies

We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable data on our site. Although most browsers automatically accept cookies, you have the ability to change your browser options on your computer to stop the automatic acceptance of cookies or to prompt you before accepting cookies. Please note, however, that if you don’t accept cookies, you may not be able to access all portions or features of the site. Note that this policy only covers our use of cookies and does not include the use of cookies by third parties. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to our site’s cookies.

Your Access to and Control Over Data

You may review, revise and delete your personal data at any time on our site. You may also change your consent settings regarding e-mail newsletters. You may opt out of any future contact from us at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website. Every two years you will also get an email from us asking whether you wish to continue to receive our correspondence.

If you have any questions or complaints about our policy, please contact our privacy officer:

We take precautions to protect your data. When you submit sensitive personal data via the website, your personal data is protected both online and offline.

We are committed to ensuring that your personal data is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the personal data we collect online. Due to the realities of technology, no method of transmitting data over the Internet or storing data is completely secure. Accordingly, we are unable to guarantee the absolute security of any personal data. We shall endeavor to notify you of any breach of such personal data in a timely fashion.

Links

This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We are not responsible for the content, privacy or security practices and policies of these other companies, individuals, websites and/or services and any data that you provide on or to third-party companies, individuals, websites or services are subject to those parties’ privacy policies. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable data.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 202-204-2400 or via email at [email protected].